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I love YA, and it's been a really good fit for me. But at some point, I would like to try something else: a collection of short stories, or writing about something other than high school. A lot has happened to me since I was eighteen.

Sarah Dessen

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Really
High
Good
Point
Eighteen
Would
Else
Collection
Love
Stories
Collections
Like
School
Fit
Writing
Short
Trying
Since
Something
Happened

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